John Burnside wins the TS Eliot poetry prize, from which two poets controversially withdrew last month in protest at sponsorship by an investment firm.

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John Burnside wins TS Eliot prize

For months, Newt Gingrich has had a front-row seat from which to observe what happens when a Republican presidential candidate emerges from the pack to be touted as the next great insurgent hope and the conservative alternative to Mitt Romney . Now it might be his turn. “This is actually the point where other people have faltered,” Gingrich said in an interview Wednesday. Read full article > >

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Newt Gingrich, on the rise, says, ‘Hopefully, I’m going to be more disciplined’

Now we know why Conan O’Brien is making that upcoming trip to New York! The TBS late-night talk show host, whose ratings aren’t all they used to be, is going to officiate a gay marriage ceremony during an episode while his show is being telecast from New York, reports celebrity web site Vulture. Such marriage would not be legal in Southern California, from which “Conan” is based. Read full article > >

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Garden designer Chris Beardshaw visits a piece of “living history” – the original Bramley apple tree from which every other originated.

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VIDEO: The original Bramley apple tree

Scientists succeed in trapping atoms of anti-hydrogen for more than 15 minutes, greatly improving their ability to study the mirror of the material from which our Universe is made.

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The earliest known medicinal use of the coca plant – from which cocaine is made – has been pushed back by thousands of years.

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First coca chewed 8,000 years ago